Military Sound Weapons Deployed At Town Halls...
And you thought Zbigniew Brzezinski was kidding when he wrote
that the government would soon control the population by
turning "Technotronic" weapons on the people...
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Sonic Cannons Deployed at Issa & Davis Town Hall Meetings in San Diego
By: Teddy Partridge Monday September 14, 2009 12:35 pm
You think your town hall meeting's law enforcement presence was authoritarian and heavy-handed?
Check this out: San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore deployed (but did not use) military type sonic crowd-control devices at two town hall meetings, one held by GOP Darrell Issa and the other by Democrat Susan Davis. These devices are the same as those used to control crowds of insurgents in the Iraq war theatre and have been linked to ear and brain injury.
Both town halls took place without incident; however the use of the military device concerned San Diegians. The LRAD [Long-Range Acoustic Device] crowd control is primarily used in Iraq to control insurgents and can cause serious and lasting harm to humans.
According to the manufacture, American Technology Corporation, the LRAD provides “military personnel the capability to transition through the rules of engagement to determine a target’s intent and also provides greater assurance that innocent lives on both sides of the device are not lost due to miscommunication.”
Should Americans be concerned at this apparent escalation of available response at peaceful public meetings called by elected officeholders? Are warfighting tools appropriate to have ready for use on civilians?
“It’s very concerning,” Kevin Keenan, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, said. “ It is fine for the Sheriff’s Department to have new less-than-lethal weapons, but for their interactions with individuals these still-dangerous weapons need to be used only as substitutes for firearms. They can’t be used as just another tool on the tool belt. As we’ve seen with tasers and pepper spray, these types of weapons are being used to subdue people even though they pose the risk of serious physical harm.”
He added, “Even more concerning is having these weapons for public order policing. I can imagine no situation, or am not aware of any situation that’s ever happened in San Diego County or is likely to happen that would justify using these weapons for public order policing to control a crowd.
"The main effect of having those weapons at public events is to chill people and chill free speech and free association.”
Are these sonic cannons weapons or not? San Diego Sheriff Bill Gore
indicated that he did not consider LRAD technology to be a non-lethal weapon, such as tasers and pepper spray, then deferred other questions on this topic pending results of a public records request submitted by ECM.
However, Defense Update, a British defense contracting publication, lists LRADs as “non-lethal directed energy weapons. The publication states: “LRAD works like a highly directional, high power megaphone, able to blast sounds (such as crowd-dispersal instructions in Arabic) in a narrow beam and with great clarity at a deafening 150 decibels (50 times the human threshold of pain). LRAD can also create deafening noises which can incapacitate people within 300 meters by “firing” short bursts of intense acoustic energy.”
A media and industrial relations representative, Robert Putnam, of the manufacturer (ATC) says these worries are quite overblown:
Putnam objected to the term “sonic cannon”, responding, “It’s not a sound cannon. It gets their attention and hopefully gets them to comply.”
He also denied that the company’s LRADs can cause hearing problems or other health concerns. “No, not true,” he said. “You’d have to be in close proximity for several minutes in order to have any damage at all. If you willingly stand in that beam for an extended situation, then that’s your choice. There’s no way a large crowd would stay.”
He said the company provides hands-on training to customers and has not had any lawsuits filed over damaged related to LRADs. The company is now offering a hand-held model, he added, which costs about $5,000 and can emit noise levels up to 135 dB. The device can also be adapted to have a high-powered light, infrared night vision, or the ability to translate commands into a foreign language.
Compliance via aural pain: it's the new free speech zone.
There has been no comment from either Congressman Issa or Congresswoman Davis about the non-lethal sonic weapons capability deployed for possible use on unruly citizens demonstrating their opinions about health care reform at a town hall meeting called for the express purpose of airing that topic.
The Davis Rally drew an estimated 1,300-1,500 people, including vocal conservative and liberal protest groups.
Incidentally, Sheriff Gore used to be FBI, but is no longer:
Also, behind the scenes Americans are skeptical that Sheriff Gore should be using anything of this magnitude in light of his connection to the Ruby Ridge, Idaho incident.
Gore was part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation team and was believed to have issued the order to kill on sight – any member of the family who showed themselves, according to a source close to the case. This mishandling and loss of life resulted in Gore leaving the FBI. Two civilians were killed, an unarmed woman holding a baby as well as a minor child.
The debacle cost the American taxpayer $3.1 million dollars when a wrongful death suit was brought against the federal government. In August of 1995 the government paid the Weaver family of Ruby Ridge an out-of-court settlement.
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High Tech Military Weapons at Town Hall meetings for
intimidation and forced compliance.
In your lifetime... could you have ever envisioned it?
I recently read a report that Taser incidents were up +300%.
And have you seen the new Tasers for crowd control?
wired.com
Controversial electroshock weaponeer Taser International is
quickly building up it arsenal. But the results from the
safety and field tests of that new gear - well, that’s coming
along much more slowly...
Get hit in the throat, or the head with this pronged
shot gun taser slug... and it WILL be fatal.
foxnews.com
Won't be long before they start using the microwave
weapons at the Tea Partys and turning up the HAARP towers.
mondovista.com
US to Use Microwave Weapons On America Citizens
By Lolita C. Baldor
The Associated Press
Air Force official says nonlethal weapons should be used on people in crowd-control situations.
Washington - Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.
Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Secretary Michael Wynne.
"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."
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Let me make sure I got this right...
They just stole $23.7 trillion in banker bailouts and backstops.
They just dumped trillions of their toxic mortgage paper onto
the balance sheets of the taxpayer.
And they long ago looted $60 trillion from the Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid systems... leaving it insolvent, and
bankrupt, unable to deliver on the benefits you already paid for.
And now they want to use sound cannons, microwaves, and
shotgun tasers on you if you speak up at a Town Hall about
all the bankster looting, or don't let them ration your health
care and your energy use, not to mention giving you the newest
toxic flu shot cocktail they've cooked up...
All the while they're jetting around the globe attending
depopulation agenda meetings and saying things in White Papers,
and position papers like this...
“The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man.”
- Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."
- Prof. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
- United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
- Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
“… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.”
- Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
"One America burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshes. This is a terrible thing to say in order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
- Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier
“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the World Wildlife Fund
“I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.”
- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing.”
- Christopher Manes, Earth First!
"Childbearing should be a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license. All potential parents should be required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing."
- David Brower, first Executive Director of the Sierra Club
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The water's starting feel petty damn warm to me, how 'bout you?
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